August 2024
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Capsule Review: To Raise a Fallen People
Omar Ali recommends Rahul Sagar’s anthology of late-19th-century Indian writings on world affairs for its selections, not its editorial frame, which he says adds nothing. He singles out Anandibai Joshi’s…
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Demographic Destiny: Power and Identity in India
X.T.M surveys how demography shapes talk of destiny and identity in India, from the Hindi belt’s ‘cradle race’ to long-run shifts in the Hindu share of the subcontinent’s population, which…
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Anandibai Joshi goes to America-1883
Omar Ali posts an extract from Anandibai Joshi’s 1883 speech explaining why she is going to America to study medicine, taken from the anthology To Raise a Fallen People, and…
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Open Thread – 8/27/2024 – Brown Pundits
What’s going on?
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Tibeto-Burman admixture into Bengalis
Razib Khan, looking at Tibetan genotypes for a Substack piece, says it is clear that the East Asian ancestry in Bengalis comes from Tibeto-Burman rather than Austro-Asiatic sources.
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Bangladesh podcast # 2 -Regime Change; The Fall of Sheikh Haseena and its Consequences
Razib Khan talks to two Bangladeshi expats active in pro-democracy campaigning, political scientist Shafiqur Rahman and economist and blogger Jyoti Rahman, about what is happening after the fall of Sheikh…
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Bangladesh podcast (a second one will be recorded in two days)
A short post for the first Bangladesh podcast, which Razib Khan says will also be on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, noting that a second episode will be recorded in two…
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Major Amin: How the British Ruled India (and the USA failed in Afg)
Major Amin argues that the East India Company conquered India with a mostly native army, similar weapons and superior strategy, diplomacy and naval power, and says the US could learn…
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A Conversation on World Cinema
The author recalls how a classmate who works in films led friends through non-English, non-Indian movies during lockdown, and shares a podcast in which they discuss some 15 to 20…
